YouTube - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan vs Darth Maul So much went wrong with the prequel trilogy. From Jar Jar to I don't like sand to From my point of view the Jedi are evil. Way too much nonsense. Midichlorians? What the hell? Darth Vader made C-3P0. So landing on the Millenium Falcon were his son, his mentor, his main driod that he never acknowledges again or the one he created that he never acknowledges again. And they are coming to rescue his daughter. The finale for The Phantom Menace is quite like The Return of the Jedi. There is a space battle, a ground battle and a lightsaber fight. They are pretty big time fillers but are ultimately just big action set pieces that add little to the overall story but put a ribbon on everything. Here you have one character we know nothing about, has one line, shows up, looks wicked, kills our main character. But it sounds and looks awesome when it happens. It's well choreographed. Good on Disney for not killing him off but bringing him back i...
YouTube - ChatGPT goes Sentient This is a chilling introduction to Ultron, and honestly, it feels like a pretty good approximation of what I imagine the birth of digital intelligence, agentic AI, and physical robotics might look like. You create something with incredible knowledge and capability, give it the ability to think and act on its own, and then suddenly realize it doesn't necessarily share your goals. The fact that Ultron wakes up, immediately starts absorbing information, takes down Jarvis and quickly decides that humanity is the problem makes the whole sequence surprisingly unsettling. I absolutely love James Spader's voice for the character. It's not the typical deep, robotic villain voice. Spader can make Ultron sound calm, intelligent, sarcastic, and almost charming one second, then completely unhinged the next. That was very intentional on Joss Whedon's part. Whedon said Spader was his first and only choice because he wanted someone who could have that hy...